Day of Thursday 12 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
06:25 sunrisesunset 17:44
Daśamī begins 10:11:33
06:0108:0110:0112:0114:0116:0118:01
453 of 679 minutes covered, the last 453
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2062
Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Thursday 12 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
453 of 679 minutes covered, the last 453
Day of Friday 13 October
Qualifies with 117 of 677 minutes. Not taken.
117 of 677 minutes covered, the first 117
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 10:12 on Thu 12 Oct to 12:31 on Fri 13 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 05:31 on Thu 12 Oct to 08:22 on Fri 13 Oct. They are together from 10:12 on Thu 12 Oct to 08:22 on Fri 13 Oct.
2062-10-12T02:11:34Z → 2062-10-13T00:22:22Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:25–17:44 on the 12th, 06:26–17:43 on the 13th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 453 of 679 minutes on the 12th and 117 of 677 on the 13th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 6996 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2062: Thursday 12 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2062 falls on Thursday 12 October. Daśamī runs from 10:12 on Thu 12 Oct to 12:31 on Fri 13 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 453 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 117 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Thu 12 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Thu 12 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Thu 12 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“S 10 Vijaya dasami (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha, covering one muhurta from sunrise. In other places, if it touches Sravana naksatra in the day time it is observed on that day), Sarasvati visarjana (to be observed in naksatra Sravana), Dasahara.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104. The Bengal reading (paraviddha, one muhūrta from sunrise) is not applied.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 12th | Covered | Sunrise 13th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 19:12 → 17:22 | 06:56 | 626 min | 06:57 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Chicago | 21:12 → 19:22 | 07:00 | 673 min | 07:01 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Jersey City | 22:12 → 20:22 | 07:05 | 675 min | 07:06 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 22:12 → 20:22 | 05:55 | 715 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| London | 03:12 → 01:22 | 07:20 | 653 min | 07:22 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Durban | 04:12 → 02:22 | 05:22 | 762 min | 05:20 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Dubai | 06:12 → 04:22 | 06:16 | 698 min | 06:16 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Delhi | 07:42 → 05:52 | 06:20 | 613 min | 06:21 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Kolkata | 07:42 → 05:52 | 05:32 | 572 min | 05:33 | 20 min | 12 Oct |
| Singapore | 10:12 → 08:22 | 06:49 | 522 min | 06:49 | 94 min | 12 Oct |
| Sydney | 13:12 → 11:22 | 06:18 | 354 min | 06:17 | 305 min | 12 Oct |
| Suva | 14:12 → 12:22 | 05:40 | 235 min | 05:39 | 403 min | 13 Oct |